Kimberly Mackey, left, and her daughter Aja Tate prepare to leave Kim Simpson's classroom after their parent-teacher conference. Simpson, a fourth-grade teacher at Bennett Elementary School, stresses the need for interaction and open communication between students, parents and teachers.“I think keeping good communication with Kim is key — open communication,” said Mackey, whose daughter Aja Tate, 9, is in Simpson’s fourth-grade classroom at Bennett Elementary School in Jackson.
Now is the time of the year when parents sit down with teachers for annual conferences to find out how their children are doing and what improvements they need to make.
Educators say it’s important that parents continue to keep in touch with their children’s teachers after the conferences are completed.
“I definitely think there should be
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sacramento Press is pleased to announce it has received the 2010 Excellence in New Communications Award in the Media Division of the Online Publishing/Blogging category. The prestigious awards program is sponsored by the Society for New Communications Research and honors individuals and organizations that are pioneering the use of social media and Internet communications technologies in business, media, nonprofits/NGOs, education, government and technology.
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The award was presented to Ben Ilfeld, co-founder of The Sacramento Press, at the 5th Annual SNCR Research Symposium & Awards Gala held at Stanford University on Nov. 4-5. The Sacramento Press, the Sacramento Local Online Advertising Network (SLOAN), Deal Ticket and Bay Area Publisher Partnership (BAPP) are all divisions of Macer Media.
The Sacramento Press submission for the SNCR award said the organization was founded to:
"The Sacramento Press program exemplifies the mission of this awards program, the innovative and successful use of social media and new communications, and we are honored to recognize Ben and his team through this awards program," commented SNCR Senior Fellow Paul Gillin, chair of SNCR's Excellence Awards committee.
"Over the past 10 years, we've seen corporate media conglomerates put the squeeze on hyper local news coverage. In the face of dwindling advertising and reduced readership, they've cast aside neighborhood news in favor of infotainment," said Ilfeld. "At
MPS teacher Norma Mortimer works with students Candase Franklin (left), Dion Jones (rear) and Tayler Artis on their group analysis of a short story in her English class. (Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Norma Mortimer moves about her high school classroom with confidence born of 41 years’ experience.
Directions to students are clear; she knows when to push for an answer and when to let a question hang.
The English teacher formerly taught music, composed and arranged marching band music, and performed at the
Justin Wedes, a former city teacher who started an online petition asking State Education Commissioner David Steiner not to grant Cathie Black the waiver she needs to become chancellor, spoke on the steps of Tweed Courthouse Sunday. On the left was Michael Meyers, director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. To the right was civil rights attorney Normal Siegel.
Parents and civil rights advocates gathered on the steps of the Department of Education headquarters yesterday to protest Mayor Bloomberg’s appointment of publishing executive Cathie Black as the next schools chancellor.
Their objections to Black’s appointment were two-fold: firstly, that Black lacks the educational experience necessary to lead the nation’s largest public school system; and secondly, that the mayor that the mayor chose a friend and kept the selection process hidden from the public and much of his staff.
“This unlimited claim that Cathie Black is the best is unsupported and untested in any school setting, in any
California’s Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling today on whether undocumented students who are residents of California must be charged out-of-state tuition in the state’s public colleges and universities.
California is one of several states that charge in-state tuition rates to longtime residents even if they are undocumented. An estimated 25,000 students are currently enrolled under that policy, even as the state has
Being a public servant means not making as much as you could elsewhere and having your salary listed online. What do to Obama's top education staffers make? Melody Barnesmakes $172K, Roberto Rodriguez $120K, Heather Higgenbottom $150K. Education spokesperson Tommy Vietor(yes, *that* Tommy Vietor) got a 35 percent raise to $78K. I can't find the listing for Robert Gordon, though I'm told he's still the PAD for education spending at OMB. More about White House
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By Peter Schrag
So whodunit?
There’s nothing surprising in the latest budget deficit projection from the Legislative Analyst’s Office -- $25 billion, in case you missed it, over some two years. Even the receding governor and legislators who cooked the current year’s budget couldn’t have believed the fiscal fantasies they worked into the mix.
To get through the current year’s budget problems, they relied on yet another set of temporary fiddles and fudges -- sales of state buildings and other assets; federal stimulus money, short-term tax increases -- all of which were only good for a year or two and are now expiring.
Among the ironic results is that while the schools will lose some $2 billion as the stimulus money runs out, the state won’t save a dime. If “the Legislature funds schools at the forecasted minimum guarantee in 2011–12,” the LAO report says, “it would mean billions of dollars in programmatic cuts to education but not contribute a single dollar to closing the $25 billion budget problem.”
Officials say these vicious little bastards are beyond any kind of help.WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Education released a comprehensive, nationwide evaluation of American schools Monday indicating that attempts to teach absolutely anything to these little shits is just a huge waste of everybody's time.
"We remain committed to providing every student in the country with access to a high-quality education," said Education Secretary Arne Duncan, adding that good schools are a key component to the success of American democracy. "But to be honest, none of that matters. We're not talking about promising young scholars here—we're talking about a bunch of fucking animals."
"We've basically flushed $11,000 down the toilet for every single one of these little bastards," Duncan continued. "Not to mention 18 years of my life."
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The study, which analyzed the effectiveness of both public and private schools, found that efforts to enlighten these terrors on the subjects of math, history, grammar, and science are as productive as slamming your head into a goddamn brick wall. The research also confirmed that the unbearable shits, who take everything for granted, consistently piss away each learning opportunity they're given.
"When I first started teaching, I would see the smiling faces in my classroom and get excited about nurturing their young minds," said Melanie Whitman, 35, a first-grade teacher quoted in the
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Many universities that are highly ranked by U.S.News & World Report have yielded a significant number of chief executives at the nation's largest corporations.
An analysis of the educational backgrounds of the CEOs of the top 100 companies on this year's Fortune 500 list (the magazine's annual ranking of American corporations based on gross revenue) revealed that the executives had a total of 42 graduate and undergraduate degrees from Ivy League schools, all of which rank in the top 20 of both U.S. News's rankings of Best Colleges and Best Business Schools.
[See where the CEOs of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies went to school.]
Surprisingly, only a third of the CEOs hold an M.B.A. Nonetheless, it was the most common graduate degree among the executives and six of the CEOs attained their M.B.A. from Harvard Business School—more than any other institution (Harvard is tied with Stanford University as the top business school in U.S. News's rankings). Fourteen of the CEOs have law degrees and 31 did not attain a graduate degree at all.
Only five of the 100 rose to the pinnacle of the corporate ladder without the aid of a bachelor's degree, including prominent names in the technology sector: Steve Jobs of Apple, Inc. and
